Posted by Morton Davis on 04/10/06 12:28

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
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>
> kim wrote:
> > "Sheila" <sheilainvalild21uk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:EL2Yf.47049$wl.16066@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > > Is there any reason I cant play films, TV programmes etc that I have
got
> > > from winmx on my DVD? Play on pc ok, but I want to watch in comfort!
> > > the error message just says, cannot play this disc. When I got the
DVD,
> > > its a Panasonic, last year the shop altered it so it could play any
region
> > > disc if that's any help.
> >
> > Dear Sheila, the kind of files you download from WinMX are not the kind
you
> > can play on a standard DVD player. What you want is a DivX player which
is
> > cheap and easy to find these days.
> >
> Wrong, Kim. The files you download from WinMX can be played on a
> standard player using some 3rd party software - it's tricky but not
> impossible. I chose early on not to burn everything I downloaded onto
> a TV playable disc because I didn't want to save everything I
> downloaded.
>
yes, that third party software only requires hours of recoding the file. As
to saving - if you burn it to a disk - then it is saved. at twenty cents for
a cd and under fifty cents for a DVD, burning disks is realatively lost
cost.

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